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Fri Mar 22, 2002

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young women who have feelings of depression are more likely to have unreasonable expectations in their personal relationships, researchers in Canada report.

In a study of female college students, women who fit the criteria for dysphoria--a mix of anxiety, depression and irritability--tended to have higher expectations and standards for themselves and others in their personal relationships than women without dysphoria who had never been depressed, the investigators found.

Fri Mar 22, 2002

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An experimental estrogen lotion appears to reduce the number of hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause, according to results from a pivotal-stage trial of the drug Estrasorb presented here on Friday.

If approved by regulatory authorities, it would be the first estrogen replacement therapy in lotion form.

ColorLines, by Shanti Rangwani, Mar 7, 2002

Got milk? If not, then thank your lucky stars. Because if you do, medical research shows that you are likely to be plagued by anemia, migraine, bloating, gas, indigestion, asthma, prostate cancer, and a host of potentially fatal allergies--especially if you are a person of color.

by Ron Lieberman

Some code words are euphemisms with political intent. A euphemism is the substitution of an agreeable word for one that is not so agreeable.

That's why we have the Department of Defense, rather than the Department of Killing People. The word Defense is friendly, and carries moral authority. When civilians are murdered by the Department of Killing People, the result is collateral damage. Fascist code words re-label theft and murder to make them appear as commerce and justice.

A quote by HENRY KISSINGER in an address to the super secret Bilderberg Organization meeting at Evian, France, May 21, 1992. He said the following as transcribed from a tape recording made by one of the Swiss delegates:

by Kristi Richardson & Mark Fisher

Talk about a small world! At about 2:30 in the afternoon of March 30, 1981, it became positively microscopic.
Crouching on the sidewalk in front of the Washington Hilton, a young man who modeled himself on Robert DeNiro's not-so-right Travis Bickle character from the movie, Taxi Driver, drew a bead on the new president. Steadying his .22-caliber pistol in both hands, John Hinckley, Jr., began firing explosive "devastator" bullets at Ronald Reagan. In the ensuing pandemonium, the sixth slug found its mark.

by Kristi Richardson & Mark Fisher

Talk about a small world! At about 2:30 in the afternoon of March 30, 1981, it became positively microscopic.
Crouching on the sidewalk in front of the Washington Hilton, a young man who modeled himself on Robert DeNiro's not-so-right Travis Bickle character from the movie, Taxi Driver, drew a bead on the new president. Steadying his .22-caliber pistol in both hands, John Hinckley, Jr., began firing explosive "devastator" bullets at Ronald Reagan. In the ensuing pandemonium, the sixth slug found its mark.

By Mike Wendling

London (CNSNews.com) - Women who take the contraceptive pill face an increased risk of breast cancer, according to one of the largest studies yet on the links between lifestyle and cancer.

The report, released over the weekend at the 3rd European Breast Cancer Conference in Barcelona, Spain, found that of the more than 100,000 women studied, those who used the pill at any point during their lives increased their chances of developing breast cancer by 26 percent.